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CHENNAI: The Joint forum of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) Employees union on Monday launched a week-long agitation against the move to privatise the airports in the country. All employees of the AAI here wore black badges in support of the agitation. The employees said they might prolong their agitation if their demands were not met.

NEW DELHI: Do you get irritated because of the aircraft you are flying in taking too much time circling over Delhi or Mumbai before landing, or the lack of late flights to Allahabad? India has adopted a new navigation system that may help address some of these issues. The GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation, or Gagan, can allow as many as 50 aircraft to safely operate in airspace that two planes take at present. It can also help ease landing in airports that are...

The Airport Authority of India (AAI) will come out with a bond issue to finance the development of 35 non-metro airports for Rs 5,000 crore, reports Our Delhi Bureau. Details of the debt issue are being finalised. According to the civil aviation ministry, AAI has already drafted phase-wise development plans for non-metro airports. A global technical advisor (GTA) and a financial consultant (IFC) have considered a plethora of options including public private partnership for development of the...

NEW DELHI: Even as the proposed IPOs for Air-India and Indian have been put on the backburner, the civil aviation ministry is now looking at an IPO for the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The move is significant since it contains a proposal for Esops to employees of AAI, who have been protesting against corporatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports. In case, the stock options plan is attractive, it will go a long way in mollifying AAI employees, who recently went on strike against handing over of...

NEW DELHI: n a move that would further delay the Government's plan to modernise four domestic airports including Chennai and Kolkata with private players, the Airports Authority of India has for the fourth time extended the deadline for submission of RFQ (Request for Qualification) documents by a month. Interested firms can submit RFQ documents for the modernisation, operations and management of the four airports - Chennai, Kolkata, Japiur and Ahmedabad-- by August...

NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) saw its annual revenues rise nearly 10 per cent to Rs 2,150.34 crore in the last fiscal, Parliament was told today. AAI had clocked revenues at Rs 1,956.44 crore in 2013-14. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha , Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said AAI generated a provisional Rs 2,150.34 crore revenues in 2014-15. The corresponding figure for 2012-13 stood at Rs 1,865.21...

NEW DELHI: MMTC and Airport Authority of India are the new PSU aspirants for the coveted Navratna status which gives greater operational autonomy, a senior official has said. "More and more companies are approaching us and seeking Navratna status... Airport Authority of India (AAI) and MMTC have approached us for the status," DPE Secretary Bhaskar Chatterjee said here yesterday. The MMTC proposal, which meets the criteria, may be examined next month, he said.

NEW DELHI: Plans are afoot to develop the Indian Air Force airport at Bihta, Bihar, for international operations, Parliament was informed today. Airports Authority of India (AAI) has proposed to develop the IAF at Bihta as new airport for international operations and taken up the matter with Defence Ministry as well as the Bihar government, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. AAI has requested...

NEW DELHI: Blue Star has bagged a Rs 9-crore contract of Airport Authority of India (AAI) for upgrading the chiller unit for the entire international airport at Delhi. The central airconditioning and commercial refrigeration major has also been allotted work by AAI to handle similar upgradation work at three other major airports including those in Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad which total Rs 15 crore in addition. The project involves replacing the existing chiller unit at the Indira Gandhi...

MUMBAI: Over 18,000 employees of Airports Authority of India (AAI) have started a protest action plan against the Civil Aviation Ministry's move to hand over operation and management of six AAI-developed airports to the private sector, union leaders said today. While the staffers have started wearing black badges since yesterday, leaders of Airports Authority Employees Union and other unions would soon meet to chalk out a long-drawn action plan which would include gate...

NEW DELHI: At a time when the government is struggling to find investments for upgradation of airports in Mumbai and Delhi, Airport Authority of India (AAI) is planning to invest crores of rupees in setting up a convention centre near Mumbai airport. A subsidiary is being incorporated by AAI for the proposed convention centre which is estimated to cost at least Rs 350 crore. AAI is supposed to contribute 26% equity in the venture and this would cost the authority around Rs 85 crore apart...

NEW DELHI: Airports Authority of India's failure to take timely action against now defunct Kingfisher Airlines for non-payment of dues and allowing it to operate on credit basis led to losses worth Rs 290 crore, CAG has said. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has also said that the Civil Aviation Ministry diluted its stand by allowing Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) to continue operations despite the carrier being a "wilful defaulter". Bogged down by mounting debt...

A Kolkata-bound flight taking off from Hyderabad first flies eastward to reach the coast and then takes a northerly route with more deviations to reach its destination. The route has been designed to avoid military installations at Begumpet near Hyderabad and at Barrackpore near Kolkata. But with the restricted military airspace being opened up for civilian flights last month, pilots can now take a direct northerly path. Airports Authority of India (AAI)...

NEW DELHI: The Public sector undertakings (PSUs) in the country seem to have woken up to achieve targets set in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or clean India campaign that aims to achieve a clean India by October 2, 2019. After Indian Railways , the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has also decided to survey the cleanliness at its airports by asking the users and has also institutionalised a best...

Time may be running out for Patna airport. A clock tower on a building that hosts the Bihar government secretariat in Patna, located on the path of the runway, is set to hamper India's standing in the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which will audit the country in November. The clock tower, built in 1917, is an obstacle in the landing path at the airport and has been flagged by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in a recent audit conducted...

MUMBAI: Opposing the privatisation of the already-developed four state-run airports in the country, global airlines body IATA today said that an all-out sale will ramp up costs and will only benefit the operator. Talking to a select group of reporters here, International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general and chief executive Tony Tyler said: "My suggestion is that the government should carry out a rigorous cost-benefit analysis...

NEW DELHI: International airports across the country have become the turf for legal battles between the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which manages theseairports, and ITDC (which runs the duty free shops there). ITDC, under the tourism ministry, is planning legal action against the AAI's decision to bar them from participating in the new round of tenders for duty free shops at airports across India. "They cannot bar us from any future tenders. Our agreement with AAI gives us the...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government today said it would seek Centre's permission to set up police aid posts at the three airports in the state to avoid any law and order issues. The move comes in the wake of the recent incident at Karipur airport in which a CISF jawan was killed in a clash between CISF and AAI personnel. Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala told the Assembly that at present Kerala police had no role in the affairs of airports as they are...

NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government has linked the development of no-frills airports to financial viability, a move that may lead to jettisoning of many of the 50 low-cost airports that the previous UPA government identified for building in small cities. The finance department of the civil aviation ministry has decided that a no-frills airport should be built only if it earns a return on investments (RoI) of 12%, a top civil aviation ministry ...